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Ceramic Hanukkah Lamp from Algeria
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This terracotta Hanukkah lamp from Cabilia (?), Algeria, is decorated with painted black triangular shapes (possibly representing humanoid figures) on a background of yellow, with edging in reddish…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Algeria)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Hanukkah, Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Maghreb, Art

Categories:

Ritual Objects, Decorative arts
Oil lamp with geometric carvings.
Silver Hanukkah Lamp
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This silver Hanukkah lamp is an example of a new type for home use that became popular in the late seventeenth century in Frankfurt am Main. Designed to resemble an ancient menorah, it has a central…

Contributor:

Johann Adam Boller

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1706

Subjects:

Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Holidays, Hanukkah, Art

Categories:

Ritual Objects, Decorative arts
Silver candelabrum with eight branches and a central branch with carved figure on top, and decorative beads on each branch.
Lampstand (Menorah) Depiction from Roman Period Jerusalem
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Lampstand (menorah) depiction from Jerusalem in a plaster engraving (1st century BCE–1st century CE). It is difficult to reconstruct what the lampstands of Exodus 25:31–35 and 1 Kings 7:49 looked like…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE

Subjects:

Temple, Ritual objects, Art, Hanukkah, Archaeology, Law, Sculpture

Categories:

Biblical law, Sculpture, Law
Plaster relief with image of seven-branched candelabrum.